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"Mummy, how come everything is made in China?" Help me here people! | |
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Oh lawd
What wonderfully curious children you have. Who was it this time? | |
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Well, becuz we want to maintain our high standard of living, we let the people in China do our crappy work. Also, they have smaller hands for the assembling of your toys and do not care if they work in toxic environment. [Edited 1/1/08 21:12pm] | |
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Fauxie said: Oh lawd
What wonderfully curious children you have. Who was it this time? Oscar! He asked me 2 years ago, "if God made everyone, who made God?" I told him to ask Mrs Alabaster, his RE teacher | |
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ZombieKitten said: Fauxie said: Oh lawd
What wonderfully curious children you have. Who was it this time? Oscar! He asked me 2 years ago, "if God made everyone, who made God?" I told him to ask Mrs Alabaster, his RE teacher And what answer did he get from Mr Alabaster? | |
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ZombieKitten said: Fauxie said: Oh lawd
What wonderfully curious children you have. Who was it this time? Oscar! He asked me 2 years ago, "if God made everyone, who made God?" I told him to ask Mrs Alabaster, his RE teacher Cute. And nice passing the buck there. | |
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because that way you don't have to think too much about where anything and everything was made. You automatically know it was made in china. | |
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HamsterHuey said: Well, becuz we want to maintain our high stnadard of living, we let the people in China do our crappy work. Also, they have smaller hands for the assembling of your toys and do not care if they work in toxic environment.
I'm sure it starts with the fact their wages are still just a fraction of ours, and their workforce is enormous. The toxic thing is unfortunate - is there no national Occupational Health and Safety body yet whose rules MUST be adhered to? or unions to protect the workforce? they probably don't know the dangers of what they are exposed to I'm sure they would care if they did. | |
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HamsterHuey said: ZombieKitten said: Oscar! He asked me 2 years ago, "if God made everyone, who made God?" I told him to ask Mrs Alabaster, his RE teacher And what answer did he get from Mr Alabaster? a total cop-out "nobody knows that" she said hell, I could have told him that! | |
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ArielB said: because that way you don't have to think too much about where anything and everything was made. You automatically know it was made in china.
well they've come a long way! when I was a kid, everything was made in Taiwan. | |
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ZombieKitten said: HamsterHuey said: Well, becuz we want to maintain our high stnadard of living, we let the people in China do our crappy work. Also, they have smaller hands for the assembling of your toys and do not care if they work in toxic environment.
I'm sure it starts with the fact their wages are still just a fraction of ours, and their workforce is enormous. The toxic thing is unfortunate - is there no national Occupational Health and Safety body yet whose rules MUST be adhered to? or unions to protect the workforce? they probably don't know the dangers of what they are exposed to I'm sure they would care if they did. I'm sure they know exactly how bad it is, but what can they do?? | |
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ZombieKitten said: ArielB said: because that way you don't have to think too much about where anything and everything was made. You automatically know it was made in china.
well they've come a long way! when I was a kid, everything was made in Taiwan. Things aren't made so much in Thailand either. Not cheap enough anymore. No more sweatshops, the country's not poor enough. | |
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Fauxie said: ZombieKitten said: I'm sure it starts with the fact their wages are still just a fraction of ours, and their workforce is enormous. The toxic thing is unfortunate - is there no national Occupational Health and Safety body yet whose rules MUST be adhered to? or unions to protect the workforce? they probably don't know the dangers of what they are exposed to I'm sure they would care if they did. I'm sure they know exactly how bad it is, but what can they do?? I saw a doco about Ericsson's mobile phone factory, and the workers were eating lunch next to a large vat of chemicals. Nobody seemed to know what it was in there exactly. The company providing the parts to Ericsson needed to cut corners (and were totally prepared to do so) to do it for the price they were screwed down to. Ericsson's people were appalled, yet how can they be sure that if they agree to higher prices that anything will change (ie. conditions) except the profit margin | |
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ZombieKitten said: Fauxie said: I'm sure they know exactly how bad it is, but what can they do?? I saw a doco about Ericsson's mobile phone factory, and the workers were eating lunch next to a large vat of chemicals. Nobody seemed to know what it was in there exactly. The company providing the parts to Ericsson needed to cut corners (and were totally prepared to do so) to do it for the price they were screwed down to. Ericsson's people were appalled, yet how can they be sure that if they agree to higher prices that anything will change (ie. conditions) except the profit margin Was that their answer or yours? It's their shit being made, yet somehow it's supposed to be accepted that they can't control conditions in the factories? It all sucks, and yet we love it. | |
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God© Made In China | |
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Fauxie said: ZombieKitten said: I saw a doco about Ericsson's mobile phone factory, and the workers were eating lunch next to a large vat of chemicals. Nobody seemed to know what it was in there exactly. The company providing the parts to Ericsson needed to cut corners (and were totally prepared to do so) to do it for the price they were screwed down to. Ericsson's people were appalled, yet how can they be sure that if they agree to higher prices that anything will change (ie. conditions) except the profit margin Was that their answer or yours? It's their shit being made, yet somehow it's supposed to be accepted that they can't control conditions in the factories? It all sucks, and yet we love it. that is my observation after watching | |
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ZombieKitten said: Fauxie said: Was that their answer or yours? It's their shit being made, yet somehow it's supposed to be accepted that they can't control conditions in the factories? It all sucks, and yet we love it. that is my observation after watching Surely they should monitor these things, but the truth is of course they just want to farm it all out, deal with the finances, get the products and turn a blind eye to quite how it all gets done. | |
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Fauxie said: ZombieKitten said: that is my observation after watching Surely they should monitor these things, but the truth is of course they just want to farm it all out, deal with the finances, get the products and turn a blind eye to quite how it all gets done. yup I wish some things could just be made law like if your manufacturer does NOT have XX safety standards etc, they cannot be contracted, but I guess certification can simply be bought. | |
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ZombieKitten said: Help me here people!
"Cheap labor." | |
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ZombieKitten said: He asked me 2 years ago, "if God made everyone, who made God?"
I still ask that question (especially to the religious folk). | |
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HamsterHuey said: God© Made In China
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Don't you just love children, and their curious minds! Proud Memaw to Seyhan Olivia Christine ,Zoey Cirilo Jaylee & Ellie Abigail Lillian | |
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Ace said: ZombieKitten said: Help me here people!
"Cheap labor." go make me some Nikes | |
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